After 10 days and nearly 4,000 miles of travel, we have returned from our massive Great Plains road trip. What did we learn? Find out some of it by listening to this week’s podcast!
Needles, South Dakota (Spice’s note: No prepping note for this pic; we just liked it.)
Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota
Lawrence Welk’s boyhood outhouse, South Dakota (Spice’s note: You know they’re not aiming at a country audience when they have to put up a sign so you know it’s a privvy.)
Windmill, South Dakota (Spice’s note: They mostly use these for pumping water, but it would make a nice backup power plan if you can afford the investment and live in Big Sky country.)
Many small towns look like this… (Spice’s note: Did you know travel insurance places often have ‘dead zones’ of a sort? When they can’t get one of their usual providers to you, they just tell you to arrange your own service and send them the bill. Big fat help if you don’t have a backup plan.)
Black Tail Prairie Dogs, Nebraska (Spice’s note: Why no town name? Other than the fact that they call these ‘prairie dog towns’, there was no town for 50 miles in any direction on some of these roads: No place with running water, no place you could beg food much less an actual store, no way a 911 call could get rescue to you for a long while … days maybe if the weather didn’t allow LifeFlights. You’d better have preps in your car if you’re driving out here.)